For whatever reason, I’ve knit more hats in the past six months than in my whole knitting career put together.  So, I’m at a count of five hats for the year; previously I’d only knit three hats ever.  Most of them I’ve knit as a way to try a yarn or try a pattern and I end up putting most of them out in the shop as samples.  If I’m cold in the office, I’ll just borrow one of them from the display for the day. I’d planned to put this most recent one up on the floor, but it is the perfect office hat – lightweight, with a lace pattern, but still keeping my head warm.  So, I’ll stop using my hats from the displays and just keep this one on my desk.

I have a lot of Spud and Chloe Fine. By “a lot” I mean there should probably be an intervention soon – I know that I have minimum two skeins of each color (for socks, people. solid color socks. a complete rainbow sock wardrobe in the future).  This particular colorway I had three skeins, and this hat pattern called for one skein, so it was ideal.

When the store receives shipments from the folks at Spud and Chloe, a few of their “On the Run” patterns are tucked in and I snagged this pattern the minute I opened the box.  Perks of working at a yarn store, right?

I’d wound the yarn, pulled the needles and placed the pattern in a project bag a few months ago but hadn’t gotten around to starting it.  Last week I was staring aimlessly around all the yarn in the Yarnery, looking for a quick project and I found this project bag. Two evenings of knitting resulted in tight shoulder and tricep muscles (16″ circular needles are killer on my arms) and a finished hat.

Pattern: Golfdish Hat by Colleen Powley from Spud and Chloe

Needle: US 3 16″ circular and dpns

Yarn: Spud and Chloe Fine, one skein, color 7806 Calypso

Size: 17″ rib unstretched.  I had some debate about which of the three sizes to choose – the finished measurements were given in terms of the unstretched ribbing, which doesn’t help much because how does one know how stretchy the ribbing is?  Since I have a small head, I opted for the middle size which turned out to be just right.

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